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The correctional services minister said he will approve the application as soon as it reaches his table.

Updated: Aug 30, 2018 10:32:23

By HT Correspondent

The Kerala floods have damaged more than 10,000 km of roads and 1 lakh houses.
(AP Photo)

Sheikh Aziz, a septuagenarian inmate in Kolkata’s Alipore Central Jail has applied to donate Rs 1 lakh -- a part of the wages he has earned down the years behind the bars -- for the flood victims of Kerala.

The inmate is serving life sentence after he was convicted in the Bowbazar blast case of March 16, 1993. The incident in one of the most infamous in Kolkata in which as many as 69 people lost their lives, when bombs stored in a building in crowded Bowbazar area of central Kolkata exploded bringing down the structure.

Key accused in that case, Rashid Khan, is also behind the bars. Aziz was a close aide of Khan and used to follow him.